Celebrating Eleven Years of bringing stories of scientific women to light! Our newest book, A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience, is now available! www.wisarchive.com
Today we celebrate the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth. Before she became the world-beloved creator of Peter Rabbitt, she was a promising naturalist and scientific illustrator who was pushed out of the field by men whose ideas she challenged. tinyurl.com/4427xzsu #WomenInSTEM #BookSky
Mushrooms, Fossils, and a Pen to Draw Them With: Beatrix Potter, Naturalist."I don't know what to write to you, so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter." In 1893, when Beatrix Potter set these words, and the ...tinyurl.comJeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, was born 286 years ago today. She pretended to be a man for as long as she could on the voyage, while also carrying out scientific documentation and collection of the plant life the ships discovered on their journey. tinyurl.com/2bnhdv7y
Jeanne Baret: The Two Stories of the World’s First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe.Told one way, the story of Jeanne Baret is an essentially inspiring tale: a woman born a peasant, raised with the expectation of seeing nothing more in her life than the next town over who became a fi...tinyurl.comPioneering psychologist Margaret Floy Washburn was born 155 years ago today. Her book The Animal Mind was for decades THE textbook on comparative psychology, and her ideas about what the brain does when observing tasks were eerily prescient of what mirror neurons actually do! tinyurl.com/mwf6zvjv
Margaret Floy Washburn and the Motion of Thought.Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) was the first American woman to receive a PhD in psychology (though not, as we learned from our time with Ladd-Franklin, the first to earn one), and was among the mo...tinyurl.comFrances Kelsey, the FDA official whose work in the early 1960s kept thalidomide from ravaging the US population as it had the European and Canadian ones, and led directly to the Kefauver-Harris Amendment, was born 112 years ago today. Her story is more important now than ever. tinyurl.com/4zh9e9p6
Between the Children and Catastrophe, A Woman: Frances O. Kelsey’s Victory Over Thalidomide.In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of Europe’s new wonder drug, thalidomide, to be introduced to the A...tinyurl.comChemist Emma Parry Carr was born 146 years ago today. A wizard of UV absorption spectrometry, she was able to use this method to determine molecular structure before x-ray crystallography had reached it maturity and was an important early researcher in molecular orbital theory. tinyurl.com/644tdkhu
Probing the Ultraviolet: The Spectroscopic Marvels of Emma Perry CarrIn its externals the life of Emma Carr (1880-1972) bears many similarities to that of fellow physicist Margaret Maltby (1860-1944). Both were born in the latter half of the 19th century, in the state ...tinyurl.comToday we celebrate the life and career of Pamela Ronald, whose work uncovering genetic defense mechanisms in bacteria-resistant rice strains won her the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2022 and has meant a future of greater food stability for those most in need. tinyurl.com/yc3zk5n3 #WomeninSTEM 🧬🌱
Going With the Grain: Pamela Ronald, Rice Savior.It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of rice for the human species. More than a fifth of all the calories consumed by humans are in the form of rice. In terms of nutrition, it is the gl...tinyurl.comHappy 88th birthday Jo Ann Campbell! We hope it is filled with laughter and memories of all the happiness you brought to people through your music.
Dale DeBakcsyWishing a happy birthday to Rockabilly pioneer Jo Ann Campbell, who turns 88 today! She began her career in 1956, but her biggest hit came in 1962 with "I'm the Girl from Wolverton Mountain", the same year she was featured in the film Hey, Let's Twist! #WomenInMusic #WomensHistory
Rosalyn Yalow was born 105 years ago today. Her 1956 paper swung the gates open for the use of radioimmunoassaying to determine trace amounts of any binding biochemical in the bloodstream, creating vast new industries and earning her the 1977 Nobel Prize. tinyurl.com/3v7nuyde #WomenInSTEM #BioSky
The Secret Life of Hormones: Rosalyn Yalow and the Discovery Of RadioimmunoassayingThere is an unsung immensity in the craft of Measuring Things Better. Within our sparkling cleverness for developing better and better measurement tools there lies the secret of our advancement, not o...tinyurl.comIndia's first woman ophthalmologist, Hamida Saiduzzafar, was born 105 years ago today. Though she had to pay for her own equipment because her advisor refused to let a woman use the equipment, she got her degree and went on to cure the vision of thousands of India's poor. tinyurl.com/2s5yafv9
Maintaining Focus: The Life and Career of Hamida Saiduzzafar, India’s First Woman OphthalmologistIn 1947, the partition of India carved out a theoretically Muslim-majority territory out of the Indian state, sparking a bloody era of desperate migration as members of religious minorities in the new...tinyurl.comNeuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM
Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of NeuropsychologyThere are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...tinyurl.comToday we are happy to induct Dr. Sneh Bhargava into the Archive, in honor of her six decades of service modernizing India's health services, particularly through her six years as director of AIIMS and manifold contributions to radiological analysis. tinyurl.com/7jtaw5nv #WomenInSTEM #MedSky
Building India’s Medical Future: Sneh Bhargava and the First Four Decades of AIIMS.In 1956, the All India Institutes of Medical Science, or AIIMS, was established thanks to the efforts of Health Minister Amrit Kaur to create a center that would serve a crucial triple purpose - not o...tinyurl.comMildred Cohn was born 113 years ago today! She was an absolute genius at the use of NMR technology to plumb the secrets of how molecules are structured, and where atoms move during reactions, with her ATP studies in particular garnering international recognition. tinyurl.com/3xn9hhs2 #WomenInSTEM
From ATP to MRI: Mildred Cohn's Pioneering Work in Nuclear Magnetic ResonanceATP is the stuff of life. Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which is to say, darn near everything) stops. For biologists, it's a criticall...tinyurl.com